Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of divesting of flesh; the state of being divested of flesh: opposed to incarnation.
- noun In the preparation of casts of anatomical cavities (as of the blood-vessels of an organ or of the air-passages of the lungs), the removal of the tissues, as by a corrosive liquid, after the cavities have been filled with a hardening injection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to
incarnation .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of removing
flesh .
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Examples
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Mellaart believed that the corpses were put outside after death and defleshed in a process of “excarnation,” possibly carried out by the vultures that were depicted in some of the artworks.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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It has been suggested that the place was a site for "sky burials", places where decapitated corpses were exposed to the elements for excarnation by vultures, presumably the reason they're pictured in the carvings.
The Glittering Eye Dave Schuler 2010
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